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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #270 on: October 31, 2016, 10:05:14 PM »

Offline guava_wrench

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Nets are starting to fall back to earth but they have been a good 4th quarter team.
A 1-2 team falling back to earth? That bodes well for our pick.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #271 on: October 31, 2016, 10:21:49 PM »

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Nets are starting to fall back to earth but they have been a good 4th quarter team.
Not tonight. ;D
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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #272 on: October 31, 2016, 10:29:17 PM »

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1 win, 3 losses.  Couldn't ask for much more.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #273 on: October 31, 2016, 10:51:53 PM »

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It's become evident that the Nets will live and die by the three. Luckily for us, their roster is comprised of pretty crappy shooters.

I keep saying it - but they're the Charlotte Hornets without the defense. There's going to be nights that they are kept in the game by their threeball, but they're going to shoot themselves out of games most nights. They just don't have the personnel, largely like the Hornets, to play that sort of way. I'm still surprised that Charlotte has won so many games with that terrible type of offense, though they're greatly helped by the iso abilities of Batum and Walker.

I'm not sure that's an apt comparison. Charlotte shot a ton of threes last year (4th most), but shot them well (8th in 3P%). What Brooklyn is is our offense from last year: crazy volume, terrible percentage. Except they're coupling that with horrible defense, which is not exactly a recipe for success.
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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #274 on: October 31, 2016, 11:09:15 PM »

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I get that it was against the Nets, but these bulls look pretty good...it would be so nice to blow them out on Wednesday and shut up all the bulls fans who think their team is actually a serious contender now
I could very well see the Hawks... starting Taurean Prince at the 3, who is already better than Crowder, imo.

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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #275 on: November 01, 2016, 12:01:16 AM »

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I hear the trade a comin'
It's rollin round the bend
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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #276 on: November 01, 2016, 01:16:56 AM »

Offline jpotter33

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It's become evident that the Nets will live and die by the three. Luckily for us, their roster is comprised of pretty crappy shooters.

I keep saying it - but they're the Charlotte Hornets without the defense. There's going to be nights that they are kept in the game by their threeball, but they're going to shoot themselves out of games most nights. They just don't have the personnel, largely like the Hornets, to play that sort of way. I'm still surprised that Charlotte has won so many games with that terrible type of offense, though they're greatly helped by the iso abilities of Batum and Walker.

I'm not sure that's an apt comparison. Charlotte shot a ton of threes last year (4th most), but shot them well (8th in 3P%). What Brooklyn is is our offense from last year: crazy volume, terrible percentage. Except they're coupling that with horrible defense, which is not exactly a recipe for success.

Hmm, I would've never guessed that they were 8th in 3P% last year. Virtually every single time that I watched them, which admittedly was only a handful of times outside of our games against them, they would shoot themselves out of games due to the God-awful three point shots they would take and miss.

Last year we took some bad threes, but I thought Charlotte was way worse and more frequent with their bad three point attempts. We took a lot, but I didn't think a significant percentage of them were actually "bad" shots. But now that I think about it, they do actually have a better roster for that kind of style than I thought - Walker, Lee, Batum, Williams, and Lin were all average to above average (and elite in the case of Williams) three point shooters at their position.

EDIT: And speaking of the Nets, they're leading the league right now with 37.3 three point attempts per game  :o That's 5.5 more than the league-leading Warriors from last season!
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Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #277 on: November 01, 2016, 03:08:34 AM »

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I look forward to reading Chad Ford's Draft Tiers in regard to next years draft with the way the Nets will perform this season, it will be wonderful.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #278 on: November 01, 2016, 06:44:21 AM »

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Two wins in the last ten matches is a bad sign, especially in the begining of the season with three straight losses to the celtics.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #279 on: November 02, 2016, 01:25:10 PM »

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Hopefully the Nets get a solid home loss tonight to drop to 1-4. This would be a really bad one for them to win as they are have easier games following this at home against an underwelming Charlotte team and Minnesota. If they somehow got to 1-7 I would be very excited. I fear that 2-6 maybe more likely or possibly even 3-5

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #280 on: November 02, 2016, 08:41:30 PM »

Offline SCeltic34

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The NBA is a strange league.  After scoring 88 points total against the Bulls 2 nights ago, Brooklyn puts up 71 points on 71%(!) shooting against Detroit in the 1st half.  Combination of terrible Detroit defense and the Nets making everything they throw at the basket. 

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #281 on: November 02, 2016, 11:55:33 PM »

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And people laughed when I said 35-40 wins.  That pick is gonna be worthless.... :(

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #282 on: November 02, 2016, 11:57:57 PM »

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And people laughed when I said 35-40 wins.  That pick is gonna be worthless.... :(
barring injury they can be much better than expected.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #283 on: November 03, 2016, 12:11:53 AM »

Offline SuddenFame

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Exactly, and if guys like RHJ get his shooting stroke figured-out, all bets are off. 
For example, people were giving Jeremy Lin grief the other night because of his lack of assists against the Bulls.  He made a LOT of good passes to open Net players, but they were bricklayers all night. How's that on him, he did his job.  One of the passes Hamilton fumbled away but Lin was charged with the turnover.  Lin can't do everything for them.

Re: The official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets season watch thread
« Reply #284 on: November 03, 2016, 12:13:11 AM »

Offline LarBrd33

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The NBA is a strange league.  After scoring 88 points total against the Bulls 2 nights ago, Brooklyn puts up 71 points on 71%(!) shooting against Detroit in the 1st half.  Combination of terrible Detroit defense and the Nets making everything they throw at the basket.
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